About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
- Joe Schicke on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
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Category Archives: Social Justice
white guys
Pfeil’s essay “Sympathy for the Devils: Notes on Some White Guys and the Ridiculous Class War” investigates a few groups of white men that are often accused by those on the Left, by feminists, and by minority groups, as being … Continue reading
Posted in Marxism, Social Justice
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journaling on anger, emotions, compositions
From my journal this morning: If literature and the humanities are about exploring the human condition, then teaching, learning, and writing are about becoming more human. If we are engaged in an ongoing soft revolution (Zizek), our societal changes cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Social Justice, Teaching Composition
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on anger
I wrote this a few days ago in my journal and posted it on my personal blog, but I thought I’d go ahead and post it here. I stopped watching corporate news television years ago. I become too angry watch … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Social Justice
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